Definitions for sectaries

sectaries sec·ta·ry

Spelling: [sek-tuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈsɛk tə ri/

Sectaries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 558 anagrams from letters in sectaries (aceeirsst).

Definitions for sectaries

noun

  1. a member of a particular sect, especially an adherent of a religious body regarded as heretical or schismatic.
  2. a Protestant of nonconformist denomination, especially a minor one.
  3. a person zealously devoted to a particular sect.

Origin of sectaries

1550-60; Medieval Latin sectārius, equivalent to sect(a) sect + -ārius -ary

Examples for sectaries

If we really thought he came hither as a man and not a sectary, for instance, it were pity of our life.

He appears on the stage as a sectary, and plays his part with resolute energy.

Such is the contrast between the sectary and the philosopher.

When he dons the garb of the sectary, he naturally becomes weakened, and loses his chief charm.

Persecution has the same effect in politics, that it has in religion; it confirms the sectary.

But this sense, once ascertained to the mind of the sectary, was to be taken for pure truth—for the very word of God.

No wonder, thought I, that the doctor called Mr. Gerard a sectary, and that Mr. Long was so cold and distant in his manner!

In form, he was certainly an Episcopalian, though not a sectary of that denomination.

Thus it will be seen that Wanless, though in his way a profoundly religious man, was in no sense a sectary.

M. Combes is a sectary, a renegade seminarist given over to Freemasonry.

Word Value for sectaries
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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